Westinghouse?

[xpanam]

Do you think the yellowed tape on the meatkeeper and on the humid-keeper, is from the factory? If not it is in great shape.

http://springfieldil.craigslist.org/app/3169628274.html

 

[circlew]

Nice looking old fridge

but it's certainly not from the 60's. Think it's a very late 40's or eary 50's model.

 

[rp2813]

It does look un-used, but the second Humidrawer is missing.

 

Outwardly it's nearly identical to the '49 I grew up with, but it's missing the Lucite trim around the handle unless it never had it to begin with.

 

The price is a little steep even in such great condition.

 

[xpanam]

Humidrawer

Hi Ralph , Do you think that it only came with one drawer? Dosent it look like there some kind of glass or something on top of the one drawer?

 

[rp2813]

Rob, I see what you mean.  It's odd, but does appear that there was only one Humidrawer to start with.

 

The door handles on Westies from this period are the Achilles heel.  The design is such that over time, the handle eventually wrenches loose from the pins it rotates on.  That's what happened with ours, and in its last days when it lived in the garage my dad used a spring-loaded clamp around the assembly to keep the handle in place.

 

[classiccaprice]

at the latest it's a 1950 model. By '51, they had the diagonal handle model like in the first couple of seasons of I Love Lucy.

 

[norgeway]

49 or 50!

I think 49, we had a 50 my Grandparents bought new from Leftwitch Electric Co in Lenoir NC to replace the 38 Apex they bought when the REA brought power up to our house, it remained there till the early 70s when my Uncle bought us a much newer GE and took the WH to his summer house in West Yellowstone montana, he sold the property in the late 90s and it was still running and probably still is ...im still mad at him!!! Westinghouse is in my opinion, the best fridge ever!